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I can't work out how to set up number of players and civs with pitboss. Creating a game takes me straight to the menu in that screenshot. Maybe if I make one in game with AI and save it? Might mean AI does dumb stuff on your first turn though.

Edit: it's throwing up an error about files already in use. Looks like pitboss doesn't like mods replacing civs. I'll see if I can find a fix.

This is silly. The problem is the huge number of options in FFH pushing the player select out of the window, which doesn't have a scroll bar. So I need to work out how to make my desktop a silly high resolution to scroll that down instead. Starting to think normal PBEM would be easier.

It seems to be a problem with pitboss itself, as it does not include a scroll option. I also did some looking around for fall from heaven 2 and pitboss. Seems that the mod has a tendency to cause a lot of OOS and might force the host to reload the game a lot of times.

PBEM doesn't look much better and from what I found it seems that most multiplayer games of fall from heaven use a mod mod called orbis. I will investigate further......To be contineud.

Got Orbis to work, it's nice. Even more options and might be interesting as it places us all at roughly the same lvl of knowledge. From what I saw it seems to be more stable for multiplayer (pitboss and PBEM).

On the options part, there should be an option to remove the red dragon that pops up in the game. It's kinda silly to lose the game in turn 30-50 due to the fact that he popped up next to your town and decides that it a nice nesting ground for him.

ps. I think I'd like to try vanilla ffh2 first and see if we run into problems... the Orbis modmods looks like one of these things where the designers added even more stuff just for the sake of adding more stuff.

yup, the basic mod looks nice and could run very well. I just want to give a heads up about the possibility of massive OOS's. If you know about the problems then if a problem occurs people tend to be not as upset about it.

Besides that, I have the feel Orbis has a lot more in it, but also makes the difference between play styles of the civ's bigger. Compared to normal civ both are a major leap away.

I assume everyone is joining this for the long run, not to be out in turn 30 due to a bad roll. I can take an early rush, or bad play on my part. A bad roll is just.....not fun. Especially if we play 6 without any AI it has a high possibility of eliminating one of us, or at the best crippling one.